Books

She left the island to find a bigger life. She never expected it would lead her back to him.

When her grandfather collapses, Cora Mercer abandons her carefully built life in Raleigh and catches the last ferry home to Wrenhaven Island—the wild barrier island she swore she’d never return to. But home isn’t the same place she left behind. Her...

She gave herself one year to not fall in love. He’s spent fifteen trying not to tell her he already has.

For three years, Marin Mercer has run the Mercer Inn like a fortress. After her marriage ended, she closed its doors to weddings, filled its rooms with everyone else’s happiness, and quietly stopped expecting any of her own. One year — that...

Wren Mercer has spent her whole life learning to leave first. This summer, a windswept island is about to give her every reason to stay.

Wren left Wrenhaven Island years ago and swore she’d never come back. A wedding photographer who keeps a bag packed by the door, she has spent her life safe behind the camera — because the person in the picture...

For ten years, June Mercer has run toward every disaster but her own. What happens when coming home is the bravest thing she’s ever had to do?

June has spent a decade as a relief nurse, deploying into floods and famines on three continents — the kind of woman who can be wheels-up to a disaster zone in a day, because holding still has always...

Four sisters. One island. A faith — and a love — worth coming home to.

Off the coast of North Carolina, past the last stop the ferry makes, lies Wrenhaven Island — a windswept ribbon of dune and salt marsh where a herd of wild horses still runs free, descended from the survivors of a long-ago shipwreck. For generations the Mercer family has been...

Hollywood Made Them Stars. God Made Them Something Better.

They met freshman year at Blackwell Institute for the Dramatic Arts — four women, one impossible deadline, and the kind of instant connection that rewrites the rest of your life.

Fifteen years later, Hadley is a celebrated showrunner walking away from a twenty-million-dollar deal....

She found someone else’s love story pressed between the pages. She wasn’t supposed to start living her own.

Briar Langston has spent seven years building a quiet life in Cedarwick, Georgia — running a used bookstore in a building that was once the town’s lending library, reading her Bible in the corner chair every morning, and telling herself...

A jury summons with the wrong name. A town she was never supposed to find. A secret she has carried for five years.

Celia Hale keeps her life small on purpose. A tidy apartment in Roanoke. A freelance bookkeeping practice. A routine so precise it leaves no room for questions she cannot answer.

Then a jury summons arrives at her door — addressed...

She recognized the handwriting on the envelope. Every letter. Every stroke. The small foot on the J, the crossed seven, the forward slant she had spent fifteen years perfecting.

The problem was, she didn’t write it

When Portland calligrapher Maren Sutherland finds a wedding RSVP in her mailbox addressed in her own hand — for a bride she has never...

Some letters arrive exactly where the Lord meant them to.

A confession written in pen and mailed for twelve years into silence. A wedding RSVP returned to the wrong sender in familiar handwriting. An old love letter forgotten inside a library book. A note tucked into a sympathy bouquet that ends up at the wrong front door.

Every book in the ...

She came to Maine to start over. He has spent sixteen years refusing to start anything for himself.

Claire Whitmore has spent her life saying yes to everyone but herself. After a panic attack finally forces her to walk away from her Boston wedding-planning career, she buys an old hardware store in a Maine harbor town, sight unseen, and decides...

She came to Colorado to learn how to live without him. She never expected to find a reason to live for herself again.

Two and a half years after losing her husband, Anna Mercer is still carrying the life she had with him like a debt she can never repay. So she leaves Cincinnati behind and rents a remote cabin in the Colorado mountains,...

She has spent her whole life going where she is needed. He has spent his whole life staying where he is needed. Neither knows what to do when love asks them to stay—and go.

After seven years running a girls’ school and a small clinic in East Africa, Savannah Cross comes home to a country she has never really known.

Sent back to rest after years...

She spent her whole life learning how to stay safe. He spent his, learning how to survive loss. Neither of them expected love to ask them to be brave.

Jordan Blake has spent twenty-eight years doing what she does best: staying.

Same small Minnesota town. Same apartment. Same job. Same haircut. Same quiet, carefully controlled life. She isn’t...

She has spent her whole life leaving before anyone can leave her. He is the first man who doesn’t chase.

Natalie Pierce knows how to start over. She’s done it in more towns than she’ll admit — always leaving before a place becomes home, before staying has a chance to hurt. So when she arrives in Cedarton, Tennessee, she gives the town a year and...

He calls plays for a living. She’s about to call an audible on his heart.

Drew Ketterman came to Granger, Texas, for one reason: to win football games.

Ten years as an assistant. One ruined knee. A career he’s measured by the scoreboard since the injury ended his playing days at twenty-two. Granger’s small-town 4A program is his first shot at...

She fired the basketball coach. What she really did was declare war on the man who owns the school.

Carly Ketterman didn’t come to Clayton State to make friends.

Fourteen months ago, she became its first woman athletic director—the fifth person to hold the job and the only one willing to look beneath the floorboards. Now she has the proof: a...

She runs through the pain. He’s the one telling her to stop.

Riley Graves has been running her whole life — away from a hometown that only ever asked her to hold everything together, and toward the one scholarship standing between her and everything falling apart.

Running is how she survives.

So when the team’s new sports-medicine doctor reads...

She speaks in numbers. He speaks in heart. Neither one can save what matters alone.

Paige Holloway crossed the bridge to audit a struggling youth baseball academy—not to fall for the man determined to keep it alive.

When Paige was thirteen, her family lost everything. Ever since, she’s believed one simple truth: feelings are expensive, and...

She walked away at nineteen. The hardest part wasn’t surviving. It was believing she deserved to.

Lily Ketterman left behind the gym that nearly destroyed her and built a quiet life on the other side of the country, far from the memories she refuses to face.

No one here knows she was once an elite gymnast.

No one knows what her coach did in the...